Two geographical markers seem to be pointing Calexico's new LP into parts un-Tex-Mex. Firstly, it's called Algiers. Secondly, they made it in New Orleans. Taken from their Arizona border milieu, Calexico seem to have shelved the Mariachi overtones; that's if we're to take "Para" at its word.The first single from the seventh Calexico album finds Burns and Convertino sounding as if classic balladeers: Joey Burns' pleasing croon floating on cresting swells of churning strings and sun-dappled brass and chiming mallet percussion and dark piano-bashing.
"I touch your face/you close your eyes/the embrace becomes an ocean," Burns sings, and there's watery imagery on album cover and in "Para" lyrics; this all a plunge begging to be taken down "below the waterline."
Calexico, "Para"
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